One pile waits with their god in a box
The other pile nervously mocks heaven
Misfits lost in the dryer, take heart
Maybe there's a place up in Sock Heaven
-Steve Taylor
“Sock Heaven”

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Jihad was a new word for Westerners, and "Death to America, the Great Satan" was a shocking battle cry.

When Americans step outside of America for a few years, they can see their glorious country through other people's eyes, and once they come back, it's nearly impossible to see her as they once did.

West Germany. Late 1970s. A brewing pot of Iranian anti-American fervor mixed with a growing European disdain for the American military presence there is ready to boil over. Add to that mix the tens of thousands of American soldiers, airmen and their families who were, for better or for worse, Ambassadors of the United States.

This is the setting for Geometry.

Part history, part romance, part political essay, part cultural expose, part unnerving subtle prophecy, Geometry follows the paths of three wandering members of the United States government’s “traveling circus,” The U.S. Army. 

Joe Asante is an idealistic Black chaplain who joins this "circus" with his wife and son. Within it they find what they never could after years of searching America. John Bridges, a teenager born into the Army, has moved nearly every year of his life, but the culture of Germany poses challenges that Stateside assignments never did. Karen Shelby, a fellow Army brat, shares John’s cynicism as they discover together the joys and trials of growing up American where Americans and their culture are not completely welcome, amid the beauty and vice of the "New York City of Europe," Frankfurt, West Germany.

A thread of uneasy suspense steadily builds, with the characters eventually discovering a fate that none of them want to believe.

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Disillusioned advertising writer turned reluctant author D.J. Wilkie has created the multi-layered and thoroughly engaging Geometry, a coming-of-age story with the front lines of the Cold War as a backdrop.

"Coming-of-age story sounds so cliché," says Wilkie, "But what the hell, you're the marketers. Sell it how you need to sell it."

Often hilarious in his historical and pop-culture tangents, Wilkie points to things most Americans are familiar with to hint at the combined shame and pride that many Americans feel. Quiet in its pulpit-pounding, Geometry finds in the character of Chaplain Asante a voice to address issues of Race and Religion and the Wars that break out over them. 

Wilkie describes in dirty detail the life of military dependency, but love, family, and "home" are the touchstones returned to throughout this romp through the Cold War, with young love never sounding so sublime and other-worldly as when Wilkie describes the realization of it between Bridges and Shelby.

Sure to please veterans, military brats, silly romantics, jaded cynics, Democrats, Republicans, Europeans, Californians, and anyone with the ability to laugh at America while embracing her, Geometry is Wilkie's first novel.

"So twistedly seductive in it’s cunning web, I don’t need Viagra anymore."

- Bob Dole

"Lacking in kinky sex, but still a ripping good yarn."

-Tony Blair

"Amazingly poetic in a sickening, heart-stopping, glorious way."

- Pope Benedict XVI

"Did I say, ‘sickening, heart-stopping?’ I didn’t mean like a heart-attack. It won’t kill you."

- Pope Benedict XVI

"There’s some stuff in here I didn’t like, but the nice outweighed the naughty. Between PG13 and R."

- Laura Bush

"When we look at what is happening in America today, where are the works of compassion? I say to you now, here, today, right here, this minute, that this book is a monumental and exhaustive work of compassion that was monumentally exhausting.''

- John Kerry

"Hep, boom - boom - boom - heh!"

- Steven Tyler